The takeover comes as sales of BMS's blood cancer drug Revlimid, its 3rd-largest revenue driver, withered in the face of generic rivals and its blockbuster Opdivo is also scheduled to face competition from generics later this decade.
In a lawsuit filed Tuesday, Merck becomes the first major drugmaker to challenge Biden's Inflation Reduction Act, which it says "violates the Constitution" by allowing the government to unilaterally impose its preferred price.
The pharmaceutical company is pushing for fast-track FDA approval of its diabetes drug Mounjaro for obesity today, after releasing promising clinical trial data that validates its claims for weight loss.